Anu Bradford

Anu Bradford is a professor at Columbia Law School. She is a leading scholar on the EU’s regulatory power and a sought-after commentator on the European Union, global economy, and digital regulation. Bradford coined the term the Brussels Effect to describe the European Union’s outsize regulatory influence on global markets. She is the author of The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World (2020), named one of the best books of 2020 by Foreign Affairs. Her newest book, Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology, was published in September 2023; and was recognized as one of the best books of 2023 by Financial Times. At Columbia Law School, Bradford is the Director of the European Legal Studies Center. She is also a senior scholar at Columbia Business School’s Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business, and a nonresident scholar at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Before joining the Law School faculty in 2012, Bradford was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School. She also practiced EU law and antitrust law in Brussels; and has served as an adviser on economic policy in the Parliament of Finland, and as an expert assistant at the European Parliament. The World Economic Forum named her Young Global Leader ’10. Bradford is a frequent keynote speaker at events hosted by universities, think tanks, international organizations, governments, and companies, in the United States and internationally. Her research and public commentary is regularly featured in top international news outlets, including The Economist, Foreign Affairs, The Financial Times, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.